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  • RE: 2008R2 Maint Plan

    eelliott 75257 (8/23/2011)


    I have an 8-day expiration set for the Full, Diff and Trx backups plans. I still get more than 8 days of jobs acccruing in the backup directory....

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  • RE: Determine if SQL Server is running on VM

    Express12 (8/23/2011)


    I need to indicate our SQL Servers running on VM's and non-VM's. (for both Windows Server 2008 and 2003)

    How can I make this determination?

    Do you need to know...

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  • RE: system stored procecures

    ChrisP-374390 (8/22/2011)


    The results could depend on the existence of database test2...

    My fault for answering and assuming that test2 did not exist. Apparently it did exist in this question.

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  • RE: Index defrag script (21005/2008)

    This sometime happens when copyine scripts off SSC, I've had it happen several times. The whitespace leading a line gets converted to control characters. Reply back with your...

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  • RE: Restore Differential without Full Backup

    I hope you have off-site tapes. The scenerio you described will not result in recovery

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  • RE: SQL server vs Access in the job market

    I've worked at a company where a 15TB OLTP database was originally designed in access, ported to SQL7, then upgraded to 2000, 2005. You can really tell from the...

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  • RE: SQL Server 2008 r2 database

    This sounds like it's pretty vendor specific, I don't know the app, so I won't speculate on what's wrong.

    As for performance:

    Add RAM

    Add Disks

    Get faster disks

    Add CPU's

    Stop unnecvessary services

    Migrate other DB's...

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  • RE: Your view on an Active/Active/Passive Cluster with many instances

    We designate preferred owners

    Everything is preferred to be owned by ist's active node, the secondary owners are passive nodes. We try to keep the heaviest db's form being on...

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  • RE: Your view on an Active/Active/Passive Cluster with many instances

    I have done up to A/A/A/A/A/P/P, though bost common is A/A/P

    They save a significan amount of money versus just A/P.

    And if you look at it statistically, it's unlikely that multiple...

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  • RE: What are the requirements for Active /Passive cluster

    A virtual name for sql

    A Virtual name for the cluster

    A Node name for node 1

    A node Name for node 2

    A heartbeat connection

    Probably two public connections per server (for further redundancy)

    A...

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  • RE: SQL Server 2008 r2 database

    Why are you using replication? Is this for DR, or something like reporting?

    Much less complex (to the user) than replication is mirroring and log-shipping.

    You mentioned that the database is...

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  • RE: Interview question

    Backup Compression is in Standard Edition with R2

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  • RE: SQL server vs Access in the job market

    I stand somewhat corrected, according to Mastering SQL Server 2008, page 508

    http://books.google.com/books?id=vILEsSKWL8oC&pg=PA504&lpg=PA504&dq=MS+Access+%22Cursor+based%22&source=bl&ots=xMSkgxIWvO&sig=RhJ3v059NBe3aCfxqU4dJDprO3I&hl=en&ei=P1BBTqLVBuT7mAXdtvykCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CE8Q6AEwBg#v=onepage&q&f=false

    "...significantly departed from their traditional cursor-based data access technologies of the past. For the first time in Microsoft...

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  • RE: SQL server vs Access in the job market

    RonKyle (8/9/2011)


    I'm not sure is access is even technically a RDBMS on the back end.

    Gregory F, that's a bold statement without providing a framework as to what you might mean...

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  • RE: SQL server vs Access in the job market

    Having lived there, that does not surprise me. However, in major IT centers, from the emails I get for recruitrers, Access jobs pay in the range of $30/hour (1099);...

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